Washington Post Fact-checker: Joe Biden Just ‘Stopped By’ Hunter Biden Dinner
Joel B. Pollak 8 Jun 2021
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler attempted on Monday to dispute a report from the New York Post that then-Vice President Joe Biden appeared at a dinner arranged by his son, Hunter, to meet the latter’s foreign business partners in 2015.
As Breitbart News noted, the Post story provided further confirmation that Hunter Biden had introduced an official from the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, to his father, despite Joe Biden’s denials of any knowledge of Hunter’s interests.
Breitbart News had originally reported last year that Hunter Biden had introduced Joe Biden to an oligarch from Kazakhstan, Kenes Rakishev, at the Café Milano in Washington, DC. The Post story appeared to confirm the meeting.
But the Post cites a participant in the meeting as claiming that Vice President Biden “only dropped by briefly to meet with one of the guests” and the guest happened to be a Greek Orthodox priest, suggesting all was entirely above board.
Kessler wrote:
A few hours earlier, Joe Biden had made remarks at the White House Greek Independence Day Reception, according to his official schedule. He and Karloutsos are personal friends who have known each other for 40 years. Karloutsos’s wife, Xanthi, is on the board of the Beau Biden Foundation, which fights child abuse. (Beau Biden, who had an aggressive form of brain cancer, died a few weeks after this dinner.)
Joe Biden, a Roman Catholic, also has a long history of working with the Greek Orthodox Church. In 2015, the church awarded him the Patriarch Athenagoras Humanitarian Award. “This may be the greatest honor I’ve ever received in my public life,” he declared.
Leach recalled that the dinner involved about 10 to 12 people in a private room but that Joe Biden “didn’t even sit down. He was not part of the dinner or part of the dinner discussion.” Instead, he just spoke to Karloutsos.
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